girl in the second row near me. I really "loved this teacher and was sorely disappointed when about 2 years later she married a man much older than myself.

In the fifth grade I took a special liking to Geography + History, Arithmetic was easy and after "spelling down" the eighth grade class on fifth grad words, I had the desire to be the best in the class, which I believe I was until I graduated from the 8th grade.

Walter E. Clark (a cousin of my father's) was my teacher in the 5th grad and E.E. Pinckney was my teacher for the next three years. Rad Dunford, a Miss Haycork also taught part time.

My first paying job was in collaboration with Hazel. I was eight years old. We went down ^below town where Uncle Vernon was running a haying crew and asked him to hire us.

"What are you worth and what can you do?"

We didn't know, but he put us on a